Author Note: - Hey folks I am back with a new chapter I hope you all would enjoy it.

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Chapter-12

Akane, Rias and Sona were sitting in the clubroom in silence. The three of them seemed to have their eyes planted on the tea table between them. It was as if they were waiting for something to appear there.

"Seriously, the two of you couldn't just take a day off school?" Akane asked Sona and Rias who were dressed in their school uniform and seemed ready to go to class any minute.

"We can't, Rias and I already have pretty spotty attendance records. This year is particularly bad. So we would not like to miss any more classes, if we can help it," Sona replied to her question matter-of-factly, not leaving room for arguments.

Rias, on the other hand, seemed a bit apologetic. "Don't worry Akane, we aren't going anywhere until our part of the job here is done." She assured her. "In fact, we have already informed the school that we will be a bit late."

"Still… I can't understand why the two of you are masquerading as school students here. Shouldn't running a nightclub or pub be much more suited for devils?" Akane asked.

Her suggestion seemed to have annoyed Sona. Her right eyebrow twitched. "Not all devils run a nightclub or a pub, Orimura. That just a stereotype," she said.

"Ok. So no nightclub or pub… But there are other things you could be doing other than going to school. I mean, what are you two getting out of the curriculum here?" she asked.

"Ehh," Rias scrambled to find an answer. "Science. Physics, chemistry and biology are important subjects to learn," she replied, lamely rubbing the back of her head as her whole face screamed; 'Even I don't believe the bullshit I just said, and frankly, I am a bit embarrassed it came out of my mouth.'

"They are Important for normal humans who have to follow and live under those rules. But they are useless for supernatural beings who can break half of those laws if they want to with ease," Akane countered.

"It seems you are more annoyed about us going to school than we are, Orimura," said Sona.

"That's because I am. If you two weren't attending this school I never would have bothered. It's a waste of my time, through and through," Akane grumbled out.

"Well, if it's any consolation, we are also not attending this school by choice. We just don't complain about it like you do." Sona replied which confused Akane a bit.

"It's something of a mandate that the two of us have to follow in order to stay and operate in the territory," Rias clarified.

"Mandate by whom? The Satans?" Akane asked to which both demon heiresses chuckled

"Please, if it was up to them we wouldn't be here. No, the mandate comes from our parents" Rias replied

"Wait! Parents? Why are you even listening to them? Shouldn't you two be old enough to be making your own decisions by this point?" Akane asked.

"We aren't," both of them replied at once. "If you think that we are like normal devils who look young but are way older than we look, then you are wrong. The two of us were given this territory way earlier than a normal," Rias replied.

"So how old are you two?" Akane asked

"Both of us are 22. Normal devils are usually given territories when they are 30," Rias answered.

"Hm. So you two got this territory eight year early. Was there any specific reason behind it?" Akane asked.

"There was, but it's nothing major. I was given this territory as a gift by my brother on my 19th birthday" Rias replied.

"So this was a gift? I thought you two just happened to have picked a wrong draft and got stuck with this area. Why would your brother gift you a territory in Japan of all places? I thought Devils preferred the glitch and glamor of western territories?" Akane asked.

"Well… This territory being in Japan was the reason why Lord Lucifer gifted it to her. You see, Rias here is a huge Japanophile," Sona said with a smirk while Rias just averted her eyes sideward while her cheeks blushed red with embarrassment, "so it was the perfect gift he could buy to her."

"And because your brother had given you your territory earlier than usual, you had to move here," Akane said.

"Pretty much. If I hadn't moved here, this territory would have gone on a rotation, and another devil might have moved in here," Rias explained. "Thought my parent didn't approve of this at first but they relented eventually on account of me taking Sona with me here and also two of us attending the school here."

"I guess having parents sucks regardless of whether they are nice or a bitch like mine," Akane muttered to herself.

"Pardon?" Rias asked as she didn't hear what she had just said.

Though before she could get a reply from Akane, the tea table started to glow. The letter 'G' appeared above it with speech graph beneath; "The job has been a success. We were able to swap one of the exorcists with Ms. Orimura's clone, and no one on the bus was fatally injured" a distorted voice informed them.

"And what of the other exorcist, and the girl Gasper?" Sona asked.

"They with Miss Orimura's clone have been transferred to the Kuoh general hospital where Akeno had made sure that no one in the hospital has contacted their emergency contact. They have been sedated, though I am afraid you don't have much time left. Maybe an hour and a half at tops before the exorcist here in Kuoh starts searching for them," the Distorted voice of Gasper informed them.

"Well then, we don't have much time to waste. Where is Tsubaki? And has she made sure that the body is ready for interrogation?" Akane asked.

"Ms. Shinra has transferred the body in the room where the interrogation would take place. Out of all passengers on the bus, he was the one who was injured the most. So much so that it forced Ms. Shinra to use a phoenix tear on him."

"Tell her to make sure that he doesn't have any kill switch on him. Tell her to even check for cyanide capsules on his teeth. I don't want to die before I have everything I need from him." Akane told him.

"Will do," he replied before the letter G faded from above the tea table.

"Please, lead me to where Tsubaki is Keeping him Sitri," Akane said getting up from her seat.

"Sure," she replied getting up as well with Rias following her suit. The three of them left the clubroom together. "Do the two of you have any prior experience with interrogations?" Akane asked.

Rias shook her head in response while Sona just turned her head away. "I might have read a book or two about it," She replied as she was ashamed that she did or she didn't do enough Akane wasn't sure Sitri was hard to read as always.

"Let's go through a quick crash course regarding the dos and dont's during an interrogation, shall we?" Akane suggested.

"Sure," Both of them chorused.

"Ok. Firstsly the most important thing during an interrogation. Don't stop the interrogator. Even if he or she is going too far, you shouldn't tell them to stop the interrogation or going there yourself to stop the interrogation," Akane told them.

"Wait, why? What would happen if the interrogator is literally at a point where he might kill the subject before we even have any info out of him." Rias asked

"If that's the case, you will need to phrase your words a bit differently. Remember, I told you that you never should vocally tell the interrogator to stop an interrogation. Why, you ask? Yes, because that takes the authority away from the interrogator," Akane explained. "If the interrogation room is the whole world for the subject, then the Interrogator is the God of that said of world. He has all the power over the subject. It's up to him whether the subject Breathes or dies. But if someone stops the interrogation not only the subject knows that the interrogator doesn't have the power over his life he also now knows that he has limits to how far he can go and this can ruin a interrogation."

"Ok… So how about we inform the interrogator in a way in which subject doesn't find out about it. With the help o a radio earpiece?" Sona asked.

"Well to answer that question, how about we put you in a scenario. Is that alright?" Akane stopped and asked Sona who nodded in response.

"Imagine you are interrogating someone who possibly has info on a kidnapped peerage member of yours. To get that information out of him you have been inside with the subject for hours in which you have beaten the ever-loving shit out of him so much so that Tsubaki who has been keeping an eye on his vitals has noticed that he will not last for long if you keep up beating.

So she contacts you and tells you to stop but you have been inside the room with the subject for so long that adrenaline and basic instints have taken over. In that time, you have gotten a few things out of him but you still don't have the vital info you need and you know that if you push him a bit further he will break and talk. Would you stop?" Akane looked in Sona eyes and asked

After maintaining their eye contact for a while, Sona broke it by turning around to her side as if she was avoiding her gaze and answered, "No."

"Then you have your answer," Akane replied.

"So, how does one stop an interrogation the correct way?" Rias asked.

"Well, you tell the interrogator that something more important has come that requires his attention or if the subject you are interrogating is in a pair, make sure that his/her partner is awake and ready for interrogation as well. Normally if this other person is someone the subject care about they tend to talk on their own otherwise interrogator just leaves," Akane answered.

"And the interrogator will listen?" Rias asked with some doubt.

"He will because the alternative to that is either the subject's death or someone coming down there to stop him. Both circumstances are not ideal for the interrogation. In fact, it is best that someone personally delivers this message by entering the room as it tends to calm the interrogator down more reliably" Akane answered "Though this is for one use only repeat this again at the same guy and he will catch on. So you must wait till the very last sec to do this." She added

"Would this be necessary for today's interrogation?" Sona asked.

"God I hope not," Akane replied Rias and Sona flinched at the mention, though Akane did not pay much attention to it. "We don't have much time here, and If he isn't gonna answer our questions when we ask him nicely then I will have to start with much harsher methods."

"Hm. Anyway, we are here," said Sona as she opened the door of a room which they entered.

It was a shared bathroom, a sight Akane was quite familiar with. One side of the room was filled with lockers, where the students must have kept their toiletries. The other side had a few stalls above, where she could see some showerheads as well as some basins with mirrors attached over them. It was quite similar to the setup back at the academy which she had been using for years. Though one thing was different here - there was a glass door at the end of the room.

"This was used as a shared bathroom back when this entire building was a girls' only hostel. Nowadays, this place remains mostly empty. The glass door leads to a larger room with an onsen inside it is where Tsubaki has placed him," Sona informed as she led them inside.

Akane could only whistle at the sight of the other room. It was much bigger compared to the initial bathroom they were in with. The onsen covered the far end of the room, and there were shower stands present at every corner. The first half was still empty it was where she could see Tsubaki standing beside a table and two chairs one in which the stray was tied in Buck naked "well Grandmother did say that this was a school were wealthy businessman send their daughter to study" she thinks to herself

"My teammates back at the academy would have killed for a place like this. They always dreamed of dipping their bodies in onsen after our practices" Akane said with mirth clearly present in her tone.

"Were they Japanese?" Rias asked.

"One of them was, though she converted the other one soon after a mission in Osaka" Akane replied.

"Did you dream of an Onsen as well?" Sona asked with a slight smirk.

"Even if I had dreamed about it it's not like I could have used one," Akane said as she tided her hair in a ponytail which also revealed her scars on the right side of her face. "Thanks to my scars, I have to be careful about the temperature of the water I bathe in."

"Oh…"

"If you want ask questions about my scars, ask me later. We have a job to do at the moment," Akane said them as she could see questions forming in their minds with facial expression.

"Anyways, So Tsubaki tell us about our guest here? Did you find anything interesting on him?" Akane asked her. She looked at the stray's clothes as well as a suitcase - presumably his - at the top of the table.

"Thanks to the crash pretty much every part of his body was a bit injured. His ribs and head injury being particularly nasty, though its nothing a phoenix tear can't heal easily. Other than that, he was not carrying anything other clothes in his suitcase though we quickly found out why?" Tsubaki replied as she took out a deck of cards from the pocket of a stray exorcist's clothes.

"A battle deck huh? So it's safe to assume it has been a year or so since he has defected the order? Maybe you can check some warning posters The exorcists might have issued for him. It might help during interrogation" Sona asked.

Sona's response made Akane chuckle. "A good attempt at a guess, Sitri, but I am afraid that him having a battle deck doesn't really tell us much about the timeline of his defection. As thanks to a major oversight on the brass part pretty much every Stray exorcist were able to get their hand on these were they were released," She informed, "the only quick and reliable way I can get info on him is via his exorcist license number. If he still has any of his order issued equipment, then we might have been able find what his License number is as Brass tends to engrave the License number on the equipment they are issuing for the exorcists."

"Those types of equipment might be inside one of these cards. Would you be able to open them?" Rias asked

"That would depend on what generation his deck belongs to. Give it me." Akane said to Tsubaki who gave her the deck from which she removed one card and started to examine it.

"Generation?" Sona wondered.

"Yeah, The Exorcist's R&D has released two generations of Battle decks. The first generation was the prototype version that was mass-produced in a hurry on the orders of the Brass. Second generations are the much more refined versions with many utility functions like the one I used last night to change my clothes instantly," Akane explained to them while she is examining the card.

"And what generation do we want this battle deck to be to open them?" Rias asked.

"First generation. Which it is," she answered before a suitcase that looked similar to the suitcase present in the image card of the appeared in her hands. "Pretty much anyone with magic can open first generation cards. It is why second generation of the battle decks was produced" Akane informed them as she opened the suitcase revealing nothing but clothes and wigs inside "I picked out the wrong card I guess" she said to herself.

"Can't you open the other cards?" Rias asked.

"I can. But sadly, we don't have much time to do that. We need to start the interrogation. Tsubaki?" Akane called out.

"Yes?"

"Go fill one of those buckets full with water and bring it here," She tells her to which she nods and leaves.

"So, what do you want us to do?" Rias asked.

"Take this" she hands Rias the battle decks "and search what inside each of these cards while you keep an eye on the situation at the hospital," Akane told them.

"You don't need us for the interrogation?" Sona asked.

"If we were going to take an interview of him at first, then sure I would have asked one of you to take the interview. But I very much doubt that he is going to answer our questions if we ask him nicely," Akane explained though she could see the two of them didn't want to leave. It even looked like Sona was going to argue with her about it, but before she could say anything, Rias interveneed and dragged Sona out of the room.

Akane had noticed that Sona did not like her calling the shots when they were discussing plans last night. Not that she particularly cared about what she thought regarding the matter as this job was hers to begin with she had just hired them as help and for that help she had already paid them.

She turned around to look at the setup the stay was in. He was tied to a wooden armrest chair with each of his limbs tied to a part of the chair with what seemed like duct tape, though there was something off about it. "Hey what kind of tape did you use to bind the guy? Something about it doesn't feel right" Akane asked.

"Ohh, its just normal duct tape which Akeno put some enhancement spells on so its supernatural proof now." Tsubaki replied

"I think she has gone a bit overboard with this. I mean enhancement spells on a duct is bit much Normal Duct tape is already supernatural proof." Akane remarks

"Well I was originally gonna use some magic binds which I knew Akeno had but when I asked for them she refused in its stead she offered to make me an enhanced roll of Duct tape. It's a cheap but reliable solution." Tsubaki replied before continuing under her breath, "Pity I didn't think about using that earlier, would have saved me the embarrassment for asking for one of Akeno sex toys," Which Akane's ear picked up on.

"Heh. If she is anything like her mother she is into some freaky stuff," Akane replied with a chuckle.

"Ohh, How do you know about Akeno's mother bedroom habits?" Tsubaki asked as she turned around to look at her curiously.

"Me and my big mouth" Akane cursed "oh well it's not like them knowing would change anything but still I would like to keep what happened under wraps until I am a devil" she thought "You do realize that I was with Baraqiel right? I had to first-hand deal with what he had picked up from Shuri." She replied

"Wait so he forced you those Bdsm Gimp stuff on you," Tsubaki asked with her voice softer than before.

"God no, not that I would have complained. It was me who had to do those stuff to him. God knows how much porn I had to see for learning that" Akane replied back though she didn't notice Tsubaki wince "And if I had done a good job with that which was most of the time I was rewarded by moans of him referring me by his dead wife name" she added this time with a very sharp sarcastic tone

"Um. I am sorry" Tsubaki apologized awkwardly.

"Eh, its nothing" Akane shrugged it off. "At least one of us was having fun." She added Before turning around. She tried to pull the stray's hand a bit further in order to check how strong it was and was impressed two complete round of that tape had made it impossible to make that hand budge even a little.

As she was checking the binds, she noticed that the stay's hands have gone awfully pale. "Hey Tsubaki you tied the binds too tight. Look at the hands it seems like a setup ready for an amputation process" She informed her

"Did I now?" Tsubaki said as she was bringing the bucket of water towards her. After putting the bucket down, she checks the binds on both hands as well as the legs "Hm. You are right. I must not have been paying attention." She said as she pulled the end of tape and started unwrapping it around one arm. "Orimura can you go get me the roll of the tape. It's in the tool box over there." She pointed towards the corner of the room where Akane could spot a red toolbox lying on the floor

"Sure." She went there and picked up the rather heavy toolbox. "It seems you got pretty much every tools I asked for." Akane said with mirth as she places the box on the table before taking out the duct tape and giving it to her. "I was expecting you just buy a few of them that why I named so many tools" she says as she browsed through the tools present ranging from a claw hammer to nose clippers.

"Well, shopping for tools knowing that a man might get tortured from one of them was an unnerving experience for me. So I hope you appreciate that I even bought them for you" Tsubaki gave a clipped response as she was redoing the binds.

"I envy the experience you are having Tsubaki," Akane said as she gave her a wanting look. "I remember the anxiety, the excitement," Akane said with a slight moan, which drew Tsubaki's attention as she turned around to look at her. "I felt the night before my first ever interrogation. The thought of my subject giving in before I could do anything to him kept me awake all night." Tsubaki was getting fidgeting more and more as she heard Akane speak before she grabs her hand brings her closer to her so much so that Akane lips here a few centimeters away from Tsubaki ears.

"It was my first time, Tsubaki, and I was already having a hard time deciding what I would do to him. I didn't want that to be ruined by his pathetic weakness. What would I do if he gives in just after a few punches? it was something that tormented me all night," her sweet, low sultry voice carrying such maniacal words being whispered right next to her ear was sending chills down her spine.

"And on the next day During my very first interrogation my worst fear came true as he blabbed out everything even before I could touch him." her sweet, sultry voice quickly turned into one of fury as growled out her every word with that Tsubaki felt was genuine. As much as her mind was screaming at her body to get away she just could move and stood there like a stump.

"Oh, the anger I felt in that very moment, there hasn't been anything since then that has brought something that primal out of me. Soon everything in my surroundings started to fade as I could only see him and him alone." Tsubaki expected something truly gruesome coming but it didn't she even felt her retrieve as she let go of her. She didn't even realize that at some point she had closed her eyed and when she opened them she saw Akane's back turned against her as she was going the toolbox again.

"Wait! That's it?" Tsubaki did not know why she asked that question, a moment ago she was dreading about the gruesome detail.

"Yeah. I have no recollection of what happened there, in fact, I have no recollection of that day after I lost "consciousness,"" She said making air quotes. "I woke the next day in a nice hotel bedroom miles away from where we were. The people I was traveling with at that time moved me there."

"There are not many things that would make a hardened member of a Russian mafia squeamish, but what I did to that guy in that interrogation room did. Their boss humorously told me that I made such a mess in that room that they had to burn the whole building to the ground to get rid of the evidence." Tsubaki picked up humor as well as some nostalgia in the tone of the response.

"Why the hell were you traveling with Russian mobsters of all people?" She couldn't help but ask as she went back to redoing the binds.

"Well, that is a story for another time. Now, are the binds done?" Akane asked her.

"No, I just have to redo the legs, then I am done," She replied.

"Leave it then," She told her.

"But I thought you wanted me to redo the binds" She asked her.

"I did. And you did redo the ones that mattered the most. Now give me the tape and be ready to throw water on his face when I say so" she told her.

Tsubaki stared at the roll of tape. She usually would have asked her to give a few minutes more to redo the mistake she that she had made in hurry. But now she wanted to get this over with and leave. So she gave Akane the roll which she takes it off her hand before taking out a small strip and sticking it to the edge of the table and she removes it before sticking it back again. She repeats it few time, prompting her to ask, "What are you doing?"

"Nothing," She says before sticking the tape on and off the table a few times before attaching it to the stray's mouth "Now he is ready. Wake him up," she tells her.

Tsubaki did as she was told and throw the bucket of water on the man's facem waking him up instantly. He woke up annoyed and confused, which soon turned to full-blown panic as he noticed the state he was in. His mouth was forced shut, and limbs tied to a chair.

Muffled sounds came out of him, abd frantically he started to try to get his hands free. The binds did not budge even a little. In all of his panic, it seemed that he hadn't even noticed them standing before him so she decided to fix that.

"He is awake," She said out loud, drawing his attention towards them as he finally laid his eyes on them. He squinted at them as if he was trying to recognize them before more muffled noises came out of him as he began to struggle left and right trying to free his hands, but to no avail.

"Good, then we can start" Akane voice drew her attention which was followed by a snap of fingers when she turned around she was now pointing one of her hands towards the entrance while not taking her one eye of the stray. Getting the message, Tsubaki nodded and started to move towards the entrance. As she was leaving, she saw Akane take a seat in front of the stray on the other chair with the red toolbox now on her lap.

As Tsubaki got out of the onsen and entered the shared bathroom, she noticed that that Rias and Sona where nowhere to be seen. "Gasper?" She contacted Rias's bishop through her headset "Gasper come in" she called him again.

"I am here I am here *CRAAAASHH*" he replied quickly before a loud crash accompanied him "DAMNN IT" he cursed out loud .

"Is everything alright there, Gasper?" She asked him concerned about the loud crash she had just heard.

"Yeaaaah, I forgot I still had my controller in my hands and It sort of pulled my whole gaming consoles off from the stand and dropped it on the floor." He replied

"Should you be doctoring the footage from the hospitals and street cams right?" Tsubaki asked annoyed that Gasper was wasting time playing games.

"I was."

"Then why did you have your contro.. you know what? never mind Just tell me where Rias and Sona are," She asked.

"Ohh? they went to hospitals to retrieve the bodies."

"What bodies?"

"OH! Right you were inside when that happened." Gasper said it loud "While you and Akane were inside Rias and Sona received a call from Akeno. She informed them that while she was going through the other stray exorcist's luggage she found another battle deck which hosted one card with two dead bodies in this display. They should be back with the bodies any moment now" He informed as he finished a big magic seal appeared in the bathroom from which Rias and Sona appeared with two death bodies lying beside them.

"You are out?" Sona said out loud in surprise, "Did the interrogation end already?"

"No, Our preparations took longer than I expected." Tsubaki replied, now knowing why Sona or Rias didn't interrupt Akane when she got uncomfortably close to her. "Anyways, She just started the interrogation after sending me out of the room as soon as the stray woke up. I was just about to ask Gasper to set up an ECG monitor to keep an eye on the stray's vitals?"

"Well, if you have placed my seals on the vital parts of his body that are required for an ECG, then I can set an ECG monitor with my Archive. Just place another seal anywhere in the room where you want the monitor to appear then I can start working my magic" Gasper replied

"I will do that," Rias replied "In the meantime, Tsubaki, why don't you give those bodies a look? See if you can find something on them their identities etc. etc."

"Sure" she replied handing Rias the seal needed for the job before she knelt and started to examine the bodies.

"So what are initial thoughts," Sona asked her as she was going through the bodies.

"Well the first thing I noticed instantly is the nasty neck wounds on both of them" She answered referring to the fine cut surrounding their necks.

"Yeah it seems someone strangled both of them to death by a very thin wire" Sona replied

"These two seems to have been caught off guard by their killers and by the large blotches present in both of their pants, it seems the two of them were at a urinal when the attack happened" Tsubaki replied.

"They did try to fight back; it's the reason why the neck wo.." "BEEP BEEP BEEP Tsubaki! Come quick" A loud beeping noise accompanied by Rias calling her out interrupted her.

Tsubaki got up and moved towards Rias who seemed to have the ECG Setup ready. "What is it?" She began, calm and collected. before her eyes fell on the reading on the monitor which was going haywire. "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPING?" She said out loud.

"I don't know. The readings have been like this the moment the Monitor got online" Rias replied as the loud Beeping continued was getting on Tsubaki nerves now. "Ohh for Lucifer's sake step aside and let me take a look," She said, forcing Rias out of the way and starting to operate the system. First order of business was to stop that annoying sound.

"Now let's see what causing that spike in his heart-rate," She said out loud as she opened the live feed of the onsen but when she did that nothing came up but a blank screen. "Gasper" She contacted him "Where is the live feed? Shouldn't the camera you placed inside be recording as well as giving us live feed" She asked him.

"Wait? it isn't there? hmmm, Let me take a look. Where is it? Where is it?.." he kept saying repeatedly as Tsubaki imagined him going through his Archive before he stopped "..Is it?. Ohh.. Crapbaskets" He cursed lowly.

"What is it Gasper? Where is the feed?" She asked.

"I might have forgotten to turn the camera on last night" he replied in a low tone.

"Ohh Gasper" Tsubaki can hear Rias groan as she tried to massage her head "So there is literary no footage of what happened inside there. Great just great" she thinks to herself

"Look, I am sorry Ok? Camera feeds from across the school is such a familiar sight that I always find one open in my screens, that I sort of forgot I had installed 4 new cameras last night," he explained himself, "Look, I will turn those cameras on ASAP" he assured them.

"Would we be able to find out what caused that spike with no video recordings?" Sona asked as she left the bodies alone for a moment before joining them.

"That would depend on what Akane did to him? If a physical trauma caused that spike we should be able to pick up the signs quite easily," Tsubaki replied back. As they waited she noticed His heart rate, which was already faster than usual, now peaked even further and now was maintaining that peak.

And after a few second of footages appeared in the other screen that she had opened up "Here it is, Sorry for the inconvenience" he apologized before cutting off the contact.

Tsubaki quickly started to go through the cameras to find the perfect angle to zoom in on.

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Inside the Onsen Even though the room's Temperature was much lower than usual thanks to Sitri magic. The stray's face was drenched in sweat as muffled gasps and sobs struggled to escape the tape over his mouth, the sound of his elbows erratically hitting the wooden chair accompanying it. By the look in his eyes he seemed to be in great pain as he gazed at a calm and silent Akane with terror.

His eyes flickered downwards, trying to deny the rose cutter carried in her hands, slick with red liquid. But he could not deny his severed finger in her other hand.

She drops the finger inside the steel bucket before placing the bloody Rose cutter on the table. "Do you know why I cut off your finger before even questioning you?" she asked as her hand began to glow green as her healing Ninjutsu started to stop the bleeding

"Because now I am going to ask you a question and if you didn't answer me. Well, now you know the consequences" She explained leaning back on her chair

"One question." She said raising her bloody right hand finger up.

"One second."

"And if you don't answer me.." She said picking up the rose cutter "..then goes the other finger." She continued bringing its blades upon his other finger. This intensified his muffled gasps as he frantically shakes his head sideways begging her to stop.

To be continued…

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